Original "Rickroll" Video Returns to YouTube After Mysterious Disappearance
The famous, original “Rickroll” video is back on YouTube after it disappeared mysteriously, causing a flurry of complaints from Web users.
Fans trying to locate the original “RickRoll” video on YouTube on Wednesday were greeted with this message: “This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.”
Twitterers were outraged by the removal of the video. “OMG! This is like a declaration of war!” tweeted Mike Cane.
Karl Puzon, another Twitterer, called the removal “the end of an era,” and a person with the Twitter handle “deignacio” lamented that “a little bit of the Internet died today.”
Perhaps the furor on Twitter was best summed up by Robin Malau, who wrote that people behind the decision to pull the plug on the video should be “Rickrolled” themselves: “Stupid label executives should be rickrolled.”
